BACKGROUND The challenge with the surgical repair of upper eyelid retraction is to obtain a more predictable and satisfactory postoperative eyelid contour and height, and to minimise the need for further surgery. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on all patients treated surgically for eyelid retraction at Moorfields Eye Hospital over a 13 year period. RESULTS In this study good...

PURPOSE To characterise the results of the largest patient series to date undergoing closed conjunctival delayed adjustable suture techniques. METHODS A multicentre retrospective review of 440 operations (patients aged 10-91 years) by five surgeons at four centres were evaluated for surgical outcomes associated with the delayed adjustable suture technique. RESULTS 26% (116 of 440) of all pa...

Ventriculoperitoneal shunt systems that are used in the treatment of normal pressure hydrocephalus are often associated with drainage problems. Adjustable shunt systems can prevent or treat these problems, but they may be expensive. The aim of our study is to compare the complications and total cost of several shunt systems.Patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus who underwent ventriculoper...

OBJECTIVES During proportional assist ventilation with load-adjustable gain factors, peak respiratory muscle pressure can be estimated from the peak airway pressure and the percentage of assistance (gain). Adjusting the gain can, therefore, target a given level of respiratory effort. This study assessed the clinical feasibility of titrating proportional assist ventilation with load-adjustable g...

Abstract In the present scenario the application of robots is quite common to reduce the human effort in several areas. The stair climbing robots are used to climb the stairs for different applications up to now, but the main disadvantage of the rugged terrain robots is not adjustable according to the structure of the stairs. To overcome this, we have developed an adjustable stair climbing robo...

We introduce a non-uniform subdivision algorithm that partitions the neighborhood of an extraordinary point in the ratio σ : 1 − σ, where σ ∈ (0, 1). We call σ the speed of the non-uniform subdivision and verify C continuity of the limit surface. For σ = 1/2, the Catmull-Clark limit surface is recovered. Other speeds are useful to vary the relative width of the polynomial spline rings generated...

Format (5.1.1) covers all uncertain optimization problems considered so far; moreover, in these latter problems the objective f and the right hand side F of the constraints always were bi-affine in x, ζ, (that is, affine in x when ζ is fixed, and affine in ζ, x being fixed), and K was a “simple” convex cone (a direct product of nonnegative rays/Lorentz cones/Semidefinite cones, depending on whe...

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This paper proposes the enhancement in the design of adjustable pedals in automotive by incorporating gesture recognition methodologies. The design addresses the three primary controls: Accelerator, Brake and Clutch. Mechanical input of driver’s feet is deduced at location variant adjustable pedals in terms of feet gestures. Research work aims vision based technology for the feet gesture recogn...